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<p class="MsoNormal">Esp on Valentine’s day. Of all the days that clear communication is important. I’d be very interested in their reasoning for why these messages were not sent and held.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> <b>On Behalf Of
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 08, 2019 1:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Matt Hoppes <mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net><br>
<b>Cc:</b> North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We apologize for finally getting around to our job and doing what we were paid to do...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 1:27 PM Matt Hoppes <<a href="mailto:mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net">mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“During an internal maintenance cycle last night, 168,149 previously undelivered text messages were inadvertently sent to multiple mobile operators’ subscribers," Syniverse said in a statement. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">how do you inadvertently send messages that were supposed to be sent but worked and sent? Isn’t that the desired outcome?<o:p></o:p></p>
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On Nov 8, 2019, at 12:54 PM, Brandon Svec <<a href="mailto:bsvec@teamonesolutions.com" target="_blank">bsvec@teamonesolutions.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">From: <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/11/08/thousands-people-just-got-text-messages-sent-valentines-day/2527660001/" target="_blank">https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/11/08/thousands-people-just-got-text-messages-sent-valentines-day/2527660001/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">It seems there is a company that has everyone's text messages..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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that its IT staff unknowingly caused the texts to be delivered this week."</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 9:47 AM Brian J. Murrell <<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca" target="_blank">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 22:42 +0000, Chris Kimball via NANOG wrote:<br>
> Does anyone have any more information on this?<br>
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Yeah, like who (in the private sector -- we all knew the NSA already<br>
are doing this) has access to and is archiving *everyone*s text<br>
messages? And why?<br>
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